EditorialYoung Italian woman in dress inspired by antique statues, 15th century. Under a small veil, she wears her long hair loose to the shoulders, a sign that she is unmarried. The violet gauze dress is fastened at the shoulders with gold clasps, bunched at t...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk, metallic threads Technique: plain weave with supplemetary weft (brocading), Medium-sized repeat of stylized symmetrical flower sprays of gold with touches of pale pink and coral in a trellis framework of fine silvery leaves and f...
EditorialYoung Italian woman in dress inspired by antique statues, 15th century. Under a small veil, she wears her long hair loose to the shoulders, a sign that she is unmarried. The violet gauze dress is fastened at the shoulders with gold clasps, bunched at t...
EditorialPeasant girl of the environs of Wurtzburg, Franconia, Germany, 19th century. The headband covers the elegance of the bonnet, and the fichu is bunched up around the throat. She wears an apron over pleated petticoats. Handcoloured copperplate engraving b...
EditorialThe oyster lass or Edinburgh fishwoman. She wears a woollen pea jacket, kerchief, and numerous layers of petticoat bunched up at the hip. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinbur...
EditorialYoung Italian woman in dress inspired by antique statues, 15th century. Under a small veil, she wears her long hair loose to the shoulders, a sign that she is unmarried. The violet gauze dress is fastened at the shoulders with gold clasps, bunched at t...